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Kansas: Covid-19 cases - 46,002 cases; 481 deaths

[Atchison] County reports first COVID-19 case

The first confirmed case has been reported within Atchison County by local health authorities.

According to Atchison Hospital, a COVID-19 patient was tested by its staff while inside their vehicle and later returned a positive result, without ever entering the hospital facility. The positive test has been considered inevitable as the pandemic continues to spread throughout the region.

Atchison Globe (Atchison, KS) - https://bit.ly/33WoJMs
 
Saline County reports first positive case of COVID-19

Saline County now has one confirmed positive case of COVID-19. Here's today's report from Saline County:

The Saline County Health Department has been notified of a positive case of coronavirus (COVID-19) in Saline County. The positive case was identified through testing sent to a private lab.

The case is a female in their 50’s associated with recent travel to the Kansas City area. This case is the first known case in Saline County.

Salina Post (Salina, KS) - https://bit.ly/2UuyG0u
 
More people test positive for COVID-19 in Johnson County, bringing total to 108

More than 100 people have now tested positive for the new coronavirus in Johnson County, bringing the total in Kansas to more than 320, health officials said Sunday.

Of the 108 people who have fallen ill in Johnson County, one is under the age of 19 and nine are between the ages of 80 and 89, according to the county Department of Health and Environment.

Johnson County continued to report the most cases in the state.

Kansas City Star (Kansas City, MO) - https://bit.ly/3dBW3MZ
 
Kansas coronavirus cases more than triple in one week

TOPEKA, Kan. (KSNT) – In the week before a statewide stay-at-home order goes into effect the number of coronavirus cases in Kansas more than tripled.

According to the numbers released by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, in one week coronavirus cases in Kansas grew from 82 on Monday March 23rd to 319 on Sunday March 29th.

The number of new cases announced each day also steadily climbed throughout the week.

The department’s secretary Dr. Lee Norman predicted that Kansas could see about 1,000 cases of the coronavirus before the numbers peak out.

KSNT (Topeka, KS) -https://bit.ly/2QPnGbJ
 

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Missouri and Kansas hospitals may be overrun by COVID-19 — especially in these areas

Color-coded maps that chart the COVID-19 pandemic as it might pass through Kansas and Missouri paint a sobering picture.

The maps are based on an analysis from the Harvard Global Health Institute that projects a total of at least 287,000 people in Missouri and Kansas combined will be hospitalized as a result of the virus.

Whether area hospitals will be able to handle the influx of patients from COVID-19 largely depends on two things: how fast the virus spreads, determined by the states’ ability to maintain social distancing, and how successful hospitals are in taking actions to make more beds available.

The maps answer this question:

What might happen in the Kansas City area — and Columbia, Lawrence, Wichita and beyond — if only one in five of the states’ residents came down with COVID-19, assuming nothing were done to contain the disease or plan for such a sobering scenario?

The first set of maps — one for each state — depict hospitals’ current capacity to handle a surge in patients if 20 percent of the state’s population contracts the virus within six months.

Based on the Harvard calculations, nearly every community in Kansas and Missouri would find their hospitals beyond capacity to treat the sickest patients in that scenario.

Hospitals in and around Kansas City would have only half the number of beds available that they would need to care for the sickest COVID-19 patients along with everyone else suffering all sorts of other maladies.

Hospitals in northwest Kansas would have only a third of the beds needed.

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Kansas City Star (Kansas City, MO) - https://bit.ly/2wDFjVa
 

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Sprint Center is getting a KU Hospital urgent care clinic

The University of Kansas Hospital next week is opening an urgent care clinic inside Sprint Center.

The hospital says it will be the first one inside the downtown loop.

Starting Monday, the walk-in clinic will be open from 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Patients older than 6 months will be seen for common ailments such as colds, allergies and flu and injuries such as cuts, scrapes, sprains, burns and fractures. Other hours or days could be added, the hospital said.

Kansas City Star (Kansas City, MO) - https://bit.ly/2X12qDT
 
Johnson County, KS Health Department
Update 3/30/2020 at 11 am
https://bit.ly/2QPdVdu

Positive Cases - 116
Deaths - 2
Negative tests - 1162

Age Distribution
10 - 19 - one
20 - 29 - thirteen
30 - 39 - eleven
40 - 49 - twenty
50 - 59 - twenty-one
60 - 69 - twenty-five
70 - 79 - fifteen
80 - 89 - ten
 

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Kansas Aging Farmland Fighting Through Covid-19 Crisis

I am on the Emergency Operations Center team in Gove County, Kansas. On March 26, we received horrible news that our very small county is the first in very rural Kansas to report a positive Covid-19 case. Our governor announced Saturday that as of 12:01 this morning, our state is under a “stay at home” order. We are working and praying — and still grappling with what this means for us.

We had been counting on this “three-county boundary” in every direction like some kind of insulating shield protecting us. We were checking online at the integrity of that invisible fence by the hour. All the while, it’s been in the back of our minds that a major U.S. interstate cuts through the heart of our county and travelers between Denver and Kansas City are through here daily.

The elephant in the room is the growing concern for our most valuable resources: our people and our businesses. When our main streets are dotted with mom-and-pop stores, or home-based business entrepreneurs, we worry about how long we can all hold on in these times we’ve never seen before. And just when we think it can’t get any worse, it does. Last week our schools closed, and our county and hospital have gone to essential staff only. These are our three biggest employers.

Ericka Nicholson was born and raised in rural Kansas. Nicholson serves as Gove County’s Economic Development Director and as the President of the local Volunteer Ambulance Service.

American Communities Project - https://bit.ly/2Us9Uhi
 
President Trump approves Kansas disaster declaration

President Donald Trump has declared a major disaster for the state of Kansas.

That declaration frees up Federal assistance to supplement State, tribal, and local recovery efforts in the areas affected by the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic beginning on January 20, 2020 and still going on today.

Governor Laura Kelly announced on Saturday that she had requested the Federal disaster declaration.

Federal funding will be made available to state. tribal and eligible local governments, along with certain private non-profit organizations for emergency measures for all areas in the state of Kansas impacted by the pandemic.

The White House says additional designations may be made at a later date if requested by Kansas and warranted by the federal government.

WIBW (Topeka, KS) - https://bit.ly/2QVwflm
 
Crawford County reports first coronavirus-related death

CRAWFORD COUNTY, Kan. (KWCH) Crawford County announced a coronavirus-related death on Monday.

The county said the patient was a woman in her forties who died at an area emergency room.

COVID-19 testing was performed post-mortem and was positive.

This brings the county's total case count to five.

The health department is conducting a case investigation to quarantine all the woman's contacts.

KWCH TV (Wichita, KS) - https://bit.ly/3dIIGKT
 
Sedgwick County has first coronavirus COVID-19 death, a resident of a Wichita suburb

Sedgwick County has had its first death from COVID-19, a county official confirmed Monday.

County Health Director Adrienne Byrne sent county commissioners an e-mail confirming the death of a resident on Sunday, Commissioner Michael O’Donnell said Monday.

“That (e-mail) said a man in his 60s with underlying health issues did in fact die,” from COVID-19, O’Donnell said. “He was tested and passed away in the hospital. He was a known case they had been investigating. He had a history of travel.”

Wichita Eagle (Wichita, KS) - https://bit.ly/3auhpdp


Death Count:
Wyandotte County - 4
Johnson County - 2
Shawnee County - 1
Sedgwick County - 1
Crawford County - 1
 
Barton County reports first confirmed COVID-19 case

GREAT BEND, Kan. (KAKE) -

Barton County health officials have reported the county's first positive case of coronavirus.

The county heath department says testing was confirmed Monday morning. The patient is a woman over the age of 60 with travel history and has already been in isolation at for a week. She is expected to fully recover.

"The Barton County Health Department is doing patient contact investigation to learn who the patient may have had contact with while symptomatic," the heath department said. "Any individuals who are at of risk exposure will be contacted as soon as possible."

KAKE TV (Wichita, KS) - https://bit.ly/2QWdmyt
 
Kansas Democrats to hold 2020 Presidential Primary by mail

TOPEKA, Kan. (KSNW) – The Kansas Democratic Party (KDP) says due to the coronavirus pandemic, it will conduct the presidential primary completely by mail.

There will be no in-person voting on May 2, 2020.

In a news release, the KDP says it is confident the mail-in ballot process will ensure all Kansas Democrats have the ability to make their voices heard.

KSN TV (Wichita, KS) - https://bit.ly/3bAqRvO
 
With over 100 coronavirus cases, Johnson County poised to spend $400,000 for tests

The Johnson County Board of Commissioners will vote Monday afternoon on spending $400,000 to purchase thousands of coronavirus tests to help overcome a statewide shortage.

At least 116 people in Johnson County have now tested positive for COVID-19, the most of any county in Kansas, according to statistics released Monday by the Johnson County Department of Health and Environment. Two have died. Statewide, the total number of cases was 319.

Because of testing shortages, the Kansas health department is only testing Johnson County residents who need to be hospitalized. But county health officials argue limiting testing will make it more difficult to gain a clear picture of how the virus is spreading in the community.

Kansas City Star - https://bit.ly/2UxgKlX
 
Eastern Kansas school food prep worker tests positive for the coronavirus

TONGANOXIE, Kan. (AP) — An eastern Kansas school district is suspending its grab-and-go sack lunch program for a week after a worker with the district’s drive-thru program tested positive for the coronavirus.

The Tonganoxie school district said in a statement that it is placing staff members who came in contact with the fellow worker in a 14-day quarantine.

The district said it also is following all infection control protocols, including thoroughly sanitizing the meal preparation area before and after meal preparations.

District officials say that the person did not come in direct contact with students or families and was only involved with meal preparations.

KSN TV (Wichita, KS) - https://bit.ly/2ULpraV
 
Kansas Department of Insurance Commissioner discusses changes and warnings with coronavirus

TOPEKA, Kan. (KSNT) Kansas Department of Insurance Commissioner Vicki Schmidt discusses changes, insurance options, scams and warnings amid the coronavirus outbreak.

KSNT TV (Topeka, KS) - https://bit.ly/2xvyeWB
 
Kansas Dept Health & Environment Update
March 30, 2020

Total Positve Cases 368
Private Labes 266
Kansas Health & Environmental Lab 102
Deaths - 8
Out of State Resident Positive Cases - 2
Total Negative Cases 4554

Demographics
Female 187
Male 181
Age range: 4 to 95 with median age of 55
hospitalized 66

County Numbers
Atchison - 1
Bourbon - 3
Butler - 3
CHerokee - 2
Clay - 1
Coffey - 10
Crawford - 5
Doniphan - 1
Douglas - 23
Finney - 1
Franklin - 6
Gove - 1
Harvey - 1
Jackson - 1
Jefferson - 1
Johnson - 116
Leavenworth - 20
Linn - 5
Lyon - 9
McPherson - 3
Mitchell - 2
Montgomery - 4
Morris - 2
Neosho - 1
Osage - 2
Ottawa - 1
Pottawatomie - 1
Reno - 7
Riley - 2
Saline - 1
Segdwick - 49
Shawnee - 14
Stafford - 1
Stevens - 2
Sumner - 1
Woodson - 1
Wyandotte - 67

KDHE - https://bit.ly/2UN6STR

NOTE: Death count is missing one:
Wyandotte - 4
Johnson - 2
Shawnee - 1
Crawford - 1
Sedgwick - 1
 

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